Dewey's Treehouse

A housekeeping note: I had to decide whether to make the "month" end with April, or go for a nice round number of posts. I think I...

It's co-op day, I have a crocheting lesson to get ready for some homeschooled girls, and we're busy here as well studying forget-me-...

So we were talking about the timeless aspects of what we currently call a Charlotte Mason education, but which has a history pre-dating Char...

Where does CM advice become the most nitty and gritty? Is it in the general comments, the principles and philosophy, given in her six volu...

Last night I found myself deep in Charlotte Mason's School Education (the third volume in the Home Education series), because I was thi...

I'm finding myself thinking more about Charlotte Mason's principle "education is a life." Maybe because a couple of homesc...

This weekend was the big University Women's book sale. We didn't make it there yesterday--we had a really busy day between homescho...

Just nostalgia today: on the same site where I found Aunt Mai's Annual, there are other books mentioned in Charlotte Mason's books o...

Aunt Mai's 1894 Annual, online and readable. Do a search-this-page for "Mai's." They've misspelled Mrs. Steinthal...

"[People need] the cultivation of the power to appreciate, to enjoy, whatever is just, true, and beautiful in thought and expression. ...

I am not the only one to think of calling April 22nd "God's Earth Day," but it did come into my head as I contemplated one of ...

UPDATE on Aunt Mai and the Smyrna Rugs "The Handicrafts best fitted for children under nine seem to me to be chair-caning, carton-work,...

I said yesterday that I was going to go in a certain direction with this...but I changed my mind. "I think of a young woman I met at...

In which we continue our interview with Charlotte Mason. Tomorrow: Mama Squirrel asks (nicely) for some curriculum makeover tips. Mama Sq...

In which we set aside the interview for today (will pick it up on Monday) Yesterday afternoon I was sitting at the community centre waiting ...

Sarah asked in a previous comment: "Please forgive me if I'm missing something key--there have been so many wonderful posts and I h...

[Update: this has been somewhat shortened from its original posting.] I promised something slightly different today...so I have invited Ch...

"One gets the impression that real poetry would be a distraction."--Deputy Headmistress at The Common Room , "Of Food and Edu...

Crayons and I have been playing this game (for two players) from Low-Cost, No-Cost Teaching Aids by Mary Ann Dasgupta. She calls it "...

"For people who want to do the "living books" thing that Susan Macaulay has popularized, here is the kindergarten program all...